Now initially you might think you don't need or even want to know about
butyrate (ˈbjuːtɪˌreɪt) noun,
any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–, and when you then bumped into this, having first found out it is in butter, you might well panic:
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Clear plastic screwdriver handles are usually made from cellulose acetate butyrate, a material developed in the 1930s.
— Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, "Why Do My Old Plastic Screwdriver Handles Stink?," 8 Oct. 2017
But then you would realize that lately it has had a great rise in reputation and helps maintain your biodome and aids in the production of key neurotransmitters that help both our gut and our brains to work. Apparently we make it when bacteria in our bellies ferment high fibre carbohydrates, but it is also, and here is the punchline, found in butter! The highest food source for it. I am relieved, and think I will just butter up everything!
At least these verbose scientist think so:
The neuropharmacology of butyrate: The bread and butter of the microbiota-gut-brain axis?
And render beef tallow into suet for the birds … at least there is a very suspicious looking pot on the stove thanks to the local butcher and my charming middle child and me.
can you make enough for me and a few friends? it also would be nice if you mixed in some sunflower seeds.
http://www.birdsforever.com/woody.html
Peanut butter, nuts and bird seed, and some oats to help bind it – sometimes dried fruit if I were feeling wealthy, but definitely some raisins. I usually buy lard but my lad has a fine way of trading this for that in a sort of floating sharing economy that has suddenly discovered spare fat!